(1841 - 1865)
Home State: Michigan
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Michigan Infantry
Before Antietam
From Kalamazoo. Enlisted in Company K, Seventh Infantry, Aug. 5, 1861, at Burr Oak, for 3 years, age 20. Promoted to Corporal March 11, 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
Promoted to Sergeant Jan. 1, 1863. Re-enlisted Dec. 18, 1863, at Stevensburg, Va. Mustered Dec. 19, 1863. Wounded in action near Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864. Taken prisoner at Ream's Station, Va., Aug. 25, 1864. Commissioned First Lieutenant Oct. 5, 1864. Died in prison at Salisbury, N. C, Jan. 2, 1865.
References & notes
Basic information from State of Michigan1.
Birth
1841
Death
01/02/1865; Salisbury, NC
1 State of Michigan, Office of the Adjutant General, and George H. Brown, Adjutant General; George H. Turner, Asst. AG, compiler, Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 46 volumes, Kalamazoo: Ihling Bros. & Everard, 1904-1915, Vol. 7, pp. 86 - 96 [AotW citation 12111]